Method of creating woodcarving with carving technology

There are three ways to create woodcarving: the first way is to face a common log, square wood or wooden board with no special shape (that is, after manual peeling and dirt removal, the wood is processed into regular shapes, such as square, rectangle and circle). ), we can freely choose the content and theme of carving, and then use a lot of carving to achieve the final artistic effect. This method seems simple, but it is also subject to certain constraints. Because the structure of wood is composed of fibers, its fragility requires us to emphasize integrity and firmness in composition creation. Generally speaking, artistic woodcarving does not pay attention to splicing, otherwise it will lose its characteristics. If you want to make a fuss about a piece of wood, you have to avoid running around and discard the fragmented details. In order to highlight the texture of wood and show beautiful wood grain, the modeling volume is not easy to be too small, but too big.

The second method is to follow the shape, that is, according to the unique natural shape or texture direction of the material itself, give this material a specific image through feeling and imagination, and release its image through clever carving. The so-called seven points are natural and three points are carved. This method is also called "clever carving", and its conception process takes more time than the actual carving, which is endless fun. "Clever carving" is a kind of conformal modeling, that is, to adapt to certain conditions, which is a kind of restriction or constraint, and seems to have caused trouble to the author. What is often limited will become the decisive factor to form its artistic characteristics, which can make rotten wood magical. Some jade carvings are precious because the author has created fine products by using the method of measuring and shaping materials and applying arts according to their materials.

The third method of woodcarving creation is to completely get rid of the morphological attributes of the original materials, and make large and small wood chips into approximate shapes and thicknesses according to the design intent by manual or mechanical stacking and bonding, and then carve. The advantage of this method is that it can increase the volume of wood at will, greatly reduce the effort of cutting wood and save large logs. If it is a "sandwich" made of different colors of wood stacked and bonded, its wood appearance will show a clear and beautiful decorative wood grain after carving, which will make the work have a unique artistic effect. Some sculptors often add the wood they want to add to any part of the sculpture. In order to expand the proportion and shape of woodcarving, they use the method of combination bonding. There are also some sculptors who are more original and unique when using wood to create works. They carved the trees planted in the garden into works, and some of them added branches and leaves, thus creating wood carvings that coexist with nature.